| Soft Solutions
designated as top 5 assortment solutions in AMR Research Feb 2010 'Retail
Assortment Management Leaders and Contenders -Evaluation Insights Revealed'
report by Kevin Sternecket |
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| CVS to implement Soft
Solutions's ibs CENTRAL for its Promotions
Allocation |
| CVS launched the
Promotions Allocations project this year after running live successfully on
Soft Solutions' ibs REFERENTIAL for PIM, Vendor and Store
master data management and ibs PRICING for the Pricing
department. The allocation project will leverage all the master data currently
in place as well as Soft Solutions' analytics engine to power the allocation
forecast. |
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| Galeries Lafayette deploys
the latest version of ibs DEALS for supplier
management for use by its subsidiary BHV |
| BHV will be better
equipped to manage their suppliers' negotiations and deals conditions like
Galeries Lafayette, current users since 2005. The enhanced version of
ibs DEALS enables both operating companies to leverage
group negotiations, item-level conditions and generate higher return on
investments on margins and productivity while bringing visibility to the entire
supplier negotiation management process. This will ensure Galeries Lafayette to
have superior supplier deals and be compliant to the French retail
regulations |
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| Castorama Russia goes into
production with Soft Solutions' supplier management solutions in Feb 2010 |
| Soft Solutions'
ibs DEALS, used successfully since 2004 by Castorama France
and Poland as well as B&Q UK to manage their entire supplier master data,
purchasing, negotiation and invoicing process, Castorama Russia follows the
other Kingfisher Group operating companies to increase supplier rebates and
collection by invoicing and tracking all the negotiated conditions in a more
systematic manner in a country where compliance is a rarity. Other operating
companies of the Kingfisher Group like Brico Depot, will be next on the agenda
for deployment. |
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| Carrefour Middle East
upgrades to the latest version of ibs DEALS
and ibs CATEGORY to enhance their supplier and
category management in 2010 |
| The corporate
purchasing center, operating out of Dubai, uses both solutions as well as
ibs REFERENTIAL to manage all their category and suppliers
negotiations in the Middle Eastern countries like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain,
Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Pakistan and Iran.
Carrefour Middle East targets to add more than 10 hypermarkets in 2010 bringing
its total to 50 for this fast growing region. They will also benefit from Soft
Solutions' master data management solution, ibs
REFERENTIAL, for better item and supplier management. |
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| Soft Solutions Version 7
release ahead of schedule |
| Soft Solutions'
released the first of its ibs SUITE based on the version 7
architecture. Version 7 leverages the Webflow approach to enhance navigation
access dynamically to information while addressing the challenges of the
underlying business process in place. |
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| O'Key Implements Soft Solutions Suite for their
Master Data, Analytics, Buying, Merchandising and Supply Chain Operations in
Russia |
O'Key, Russia's
fastest growing retailer, implements the complete Soft Solutions Suite. The
scope covers Soft Solutions Retail Operations Suite for
allocation, ordering, inventory, supply chain and store operations,
Retail Business Suite for negotiation, pricing, promotions,
assortment and merchandise management, Retail Analytics Suite for
demand forecasting and optimization, Retail Collaboration Suite
for retailer-supplier collaboration on top of Soft Solutions' proven and
powerful Master Data Management Suite (MDM).
[Russian Version] |
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| Soft Solutions’ webcast on “Effective Trade Promotions
Management Requires Robust Master Data Management Capabilities” – 21
July 2009. |
| Listen to Mike
Griswold of AMR Research and Joe Fakhry of Kingfisher Group and understand how
trade promotions management (vendor funding) when done well reduces process
costs, increases gross margin, and improves promotional execution. |
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| Intermarché selects
Soft Solutions to enhance capabilities for optimizing their category, prices
and margin |
| ibs
CATEGORY enhances capabilities for their category
management strategies, to provide continuity throughout the category management
and buying process, ibs PRICING provides
Intermarché with advanced price optimization and management
functionalities such as competitor management, rules-based simulation and price
execution in a single platform while ibs ANALYTICS
embedded forecasting engine provides ibs CATEGORY
and ibs PRICING the forecasting and
optimization capabilities. |
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| AMR - Retail IT Leaders
Forum on Master Data Management Feedback |
| 33 executives from
13 member companies participated in the Retail Peer Forum Teleconference:
“Master Data Management” held on December 11, 2008. Members shared
perspectives on how today’s retailers drive successful master data
management (MDM) initiatives within their organizations. The teleconference
guest retail co-lead, the Director of Merchandising and Marketing Systems for a
chain drug retailer, described the evolution and lessons learned from its
current MDM initiative. The call was co-led by Mike Griswold, VP Retail, AMR
Research. |
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| Carrefour MAF successfully implemented Soft
Solutions’ ibs CATEGORY in August to
manage Carrefours vendor buying negotiations for eight of their countries.
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| ibs
CATEGORY used in conjunction with ibs
DEALS, implemented in 2004, will provide
significant return on investment for Carrefour by improving their buying
profits and the management of their centralized buying process. |
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| Soft Solutions launched its new embedded V6 ibs
Analytics Forecasting Engine, supporting the fast growing Retail Demands.
ibs ANALYTICS supports retailers full Pricing,
Promotions, Markdown, Assortment and Store Replenishment optimization
process. |
| “Soft
Solutions’ unique analytics engine safeguards the accuracy of its business
application, as it is an embedded module inside ibs
RETAIL BUSINESS SUITE , declares Gilles
Goldenberg, Global Vice Chairman for Consumer Business Industries at
Deloitte. |
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| FNAC (PPR) successfully
upgraded Soft Solutions’ ibs DEALS from
V5.0.9 to V6.0.3 in August to improve their vendor profits |
| Etienne Bertin, the
CIO of FNAC, complimented the joint Soft Solutions and Atos Origin
implementation team on the respect of project deadlines, user satisfaction and
improved performances. This implementation will be followed by a pricing
project to consolidate their market share and price image. |
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| Mosmart, Russia’s
fastest growing retailer, successfully implemented Soft Solutions’
ibs DEALS 2nd Batch in August to manage their
vendor purchasing negotiations |
| It will continue to
implement the rest of Soft Solutions Retail Suite over the next few months to
manage its Assortment, Pricing, Promotions, and Store process in addition to
providing a solid Master Data Management solution to support its ambitious
growth of tripling its growth by end of 2009. |
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| CVS/Caremark successfully
implemented Soft Solutions Master Data Management solutions (ibs
REFERENTIAL and ibs
DATASYNC) to replace their PIM legacy in July |
| This is the first
in the series of projects to deploy the rest of Soft Solutions Retail Suite
over the next three months to cover vendor, store and price management.
According to Ray Augers, VP of Retail Systems, our MDM solution is the
foundational application for their merchandising roadmap for the next 10
years. |
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| Canadian Tire Retail (CTR)
successfully implemented Soft Solutions’ Master Data Management and
Merchandising solutions (ibs REFERENTIAL and
ibs PRICING) for use by 400 pricing department
nd category managers in July |
| It will enable
greater visibility and process improvement of the MDM and pricing process. This
is the first phase of the CTR Marketing Change Program to replace its 40-year
old legacies systems by Soft Solutions Retail Suite. |
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